Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Covenant Health, a health system based in Knoxville, Tennessee, had a problem with telemedicine – a lack of physician specialists needed in rural communities. Covenant Health began its journey with telehealth a decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and served as a pioneer in the region in virtual care. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2022

MaineHealth wanted telemedicine technology that could easily integrate into its care models and that would be highly accessible for patients to use. "Choosing a solution that was easy to use for both patients and care teams was a high priority so as not to exacerbate digital access and digital literacy barriers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2021

When COVID-19 hit in early 2020, patient and provider needs shifted substantially – and consumer demand for telehealth options skyrocketed. Patients have come to expect certain conveniences – telehealth, contactless check-in, SMS texting – and I believe patients will want those options going forward.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. Mental and behavioral health.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Providing a great patient experience is slowly shifting from a differentiator to a survival tactic. In a world where reimbursements are tied to patient experience and where online ratings can impact patient volume, practices can’t afford not to focus on experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2020

hospitals, has added American Telemedicine Association Conifer Health Solutions, which focuses on revenue-cycle management, and Gensler, the design and planning firm – bringing in three more diverse perspectives for digital health strategies. WHY IT MATTERS. The COVID-19 Resource Hub , which is open to all U.S. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2021

" For these transplant recipients or candidates, a key new option brought on by the pandemic was remote telehealth. "The telehealth portal was preferentially designed to allow the patient to access their appointment on the Cerner hospital electronic medical record via the HealtheLife app. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

As a family medicine practitioner, Dr. Dillon Miller, medical director at Blue Ridge Medical Group in Blue Ridge, Georgia, was faced with challenges erupting from the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic presented a variety of problems when it came to continuing patient care during quarantine. The experience was often frustrating.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

Among the many insights they've gained over the past year-plus, they discuss the need to secure a place for telemedicine and expand its capabilities, deploy and scale new technologies faster, and embrace Agile processes and collaborative IT. The new importance of telemedicine. " Growing telehealth capabilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

However, the health system's Winchester Medical Center hospital president Skip Phillips had previous experience with tele-ICU, specifically, telemedicine technology and services vendor Advanced ICU Care. " Then there is the patient experience. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Waracle

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Join the conversation, sign up now for our next event in January – The Patient Experience – Empowering Patients. Optimising the patient experience is a tangible route to competitive advantage for any organisation invested in human health and wellbeing. Telemedicine. Telemedicine is here to stay.

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Iris Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If you’re a psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner, you might recently have started looking for work in telemedicine, a growing industry in the world of mental health and medicine. But how exactly do you decide which telemedicine company is best for you? Key Features When Choosing Your Telemedicine Company.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2022

Telemedicine, though, cannot directly provide services to address social determinants of health, services that still remain scattered and disparate. Healthcare IT News interviewed Greenleaf to talk about the intersection of these services and telemedicine. Can telemedicine help provide services to address social determinants of health?

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

Underneath that macro statistic, check out the differences across age groups — Boomers (ages 59-77) were the most frequent visitors for primary/preventive care, but seeking specialty care was more common from ages 27 (Millennials) on to Boomers. See that urgent care visits were more likely sought by younger patients under 43.

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APRIL 21, 2021

As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2023

We interviewed Ben-Aharon to talk about the convergence of speech therapy and telehealth. How is speech therapy delivered via telehealth? The pandemic introduced many people to the convenience of accessing multiple healthcare services via virtual care, also known as telemedicine or telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, 30- and 9-day mark, especially in OB/GYN, podiatry, and internal medicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Many of the challenges it was facing had obstacles that affected both patients and providers in the telehealth setting. For example: Physicians had to initiate virtual health sessions by manually calling their patients, which contributed to missed appointments and a resulting lower care-capacity. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

Today kicks off the first all-virtual conference of the ATA, the American Telemedicine Association. I’ll be midwifing a panel this afternoon at 440 pm Eastern time, initially focused on how health care can garner patient loyalty. patients toward telehealth — the focus of the ATA conference all week long.

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

For some people, the results seemed to confirm that patients do not like virtual services, since “access video calls with providers” ranked dead last at 10 percent. Doctors have long worried that their patients won’t accept or adapt to telemedicine. 4 Steps to Educating Patients. Trust is vital with telemedicine.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

He’s also one of many Exalta patients who took advantage of a partnership with a local hospital to receive needed specialty care through a unique hybrid remote/in-person model. As a lesson in the potential for telemedicine to serve disparate populations, the early results of this partnership are promising.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

At the time, Maimonides was not engaged in any telemedicine or other digital health initiatives. It was falling short of its patients' expectations in an increasingly digital world, and it was at a competitive disadvantage relative to peer organizations in the market. THE PROBLEM. " Rob Cimino, Maimonides Medical Center.

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care innovations

JUNE 13, 2018

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has worked for years to increase awareness of digital healthcare, highlighting how telemedicine trends are changing the American healthcare industry in fundamental ways , like the rise of the nursing informaticist and nurturing diversity in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2021

A survey conducted on behalf of Kyruus, a patient-experience software vendor, found that the majority of consumers say they still prefer in-person care for long-term needs. The pandemic ushered in unprecedented levels of interest in virtual care, enabled by loosened federal restrictions around telehealth. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S., health citizens. health citizens.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2024

Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering various benefits to healthcare organizations, providers and patients. A big chunk of telemedicine technology and services company Teladoc Health's business is in primary care. How, exactly?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available." " Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have. MARKETPLACE.

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American Well

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In 2014, Southwest Medical Associates, one of Nevada’s largest multi-specialty medical groups, partnered with American Well to launch its telehealth service, SMA NowClinic. In the newly released case study , we reveal how Southwest Medical enrolled more than 30,000 patients in its program and conducted more than 20,000 telehealth visits. .

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American Well

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In 2014, Southwest Medical Associates, one of Nevada’s largest multi-specialty medical groups, partnered with American Well to launch its telehealth service, SMA NowClinic. In the newly released case study , we reveal how Southwest Medical enrolled more than 30,000 patients in its program and conducted more than 20,000 telehealth visits. .

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American Well

APRIL 6, 2017

Crystal-clear answers to these questions are required for a successful telehealth implementation: What goals are we trying to achieve? Are we using telehealth to virtualize a practice or virtualize our health system? How can we integrate telehealth in the continuum of patient experience?

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American Well

APRIL 6, 2017

C rystal-clear answers to these questions are required for a successful telehealth implementation : What goals are we trying to achieve? Are we using telehealth to virtualize a practice or virtualize our health system? How can we integrate telehealth in the continuum of patient experience?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic most certainly has driven telehealth into the mainstream of healthcare. And one area of telehealth that has seen particularly big gains in the past two years is remote patient monitoring. How has remote patient monitoring been easing the burden on the COVID-clogged healthcare system?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Despite the many advances in telehealth, mobile apps and walk-in health clinics, patients and caregivers frequently find themselves waiting (often impatiently) in long phone queues to make an appointment, renew a prescription or obtain lab results. The following is a guest article by Sandro Stupar, Product Management Director at Mitto.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The most visible threat was seen from UnitedHealth Group, with 3 in 4 hospitals noting UHG as a formidable threat to their health system business. CVS Health/Aetna, Amazon, and Walmart rank in the next-most competitive group impacting hospitals, followed by new primary care models.

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